Our Mission

Our vision is to work jointly with families or individuals to define goals and achieve them.
While each family or
individual will have different goals, we want to make sure that CFO and the family or
individual have a specific
plan to reach these goals. Working together with these families and/or individuals CFO will
strive to help them
reach new heights through planning, assistance and hard work.

“One of the Great rewards in life is the ability to give back. It's about how we affect
our communities, how our personal acts can change the lives of others, and how we express
our gratitude for all that we've earned and achieved. Together we can make a difference.”Mark
Mekota - CFO President

How We Help

Meet Joseph... As a recent “Helping Hands Grant” Recipient, Care For Others
purchased an iPhone and application called Proloque2go. After fighting several battles with
cancer, along with multiple surgeries, Joseph was left unable to verbally communicate, but
through the Proloque2go application he is now able to send text messages, as well as
pre-program phrases and sentences that the iPhone relays through a digital voice.Learn more about how we can help!

Support Care For Others

Care For Others can not exist without people who care. Some give their time and volunteer for
CFO events, while others make a donation to help fund our “Helping Hands Grants.”
No matter how you get involved, your support will allow us to continue to help those in
need. And as we have learned here at Care For Others Kindness really is
Contagious!Make a Donation Now.

Care For Others Events

Care For Others' Special Events currently account for over 70% of our income necessary to
help families and individuals in need. Please consider supporting our Golf Outing and
Harvest for Hope Auction and Dinner in whatever capacity you can. Your sponsorship,
attendance, and auction contributions make a direct impact on the number of people we can
help this year. Take the initiative and support these events today!

Our Mission

From Our President

How We Help

Support CFO

Events

Thank You - July 4th 2017 - Golf Outing

Just wanted to say thank you again to the families, volunteers, sponsors, donors, team at Berkshire Hills golf course and ALL the players who supported the Care for Others Family and Friends July 4th fund raiser. Your outpouring of love and support netted $17,954. We continue to pray for Frank and Gail as they fight to beat this disease!

Our Mission

Care For Others A Faith Based organization that from 2006-2013 worked to prevent
hardworking
individuals and families from possibly entering the cycle of poverty
and welfare, with a small
amount of financial assistance during a particularly difficult time.
These grants were designed to restore financial
self sufficiency for those who are willing to work, but were
temporarily unable to manage their day to day expenses
due to circumstances out of their control. Despite this unexpected
financial set back, these individuals, with our
assistance, continued to live independently and within their means.

Starting in 2014 Care for others is excited to shift its focus to partnering with other local and
statewide community
agencies such as, but not limited to, - Targeted assistance program for survivors (TAPS), Youth for
Christ (YFC),
Habitat for Humanity (H4H) to name a few. Through their personal relationships with Care For Others,
these agencies
will submit candidates for our board to review. We will choose at our discretion one or two families or
individuals
annually to help in an effort to really change their lives. Our organization will work closely with
these families
throughout the year and help in every way necessary to improve their current situation. We hope to help
educate,
consult, share(remove share would rather see “guide”), work alongside and financially contribute in a
focused effort
to have a positive impact and permanently change lives.

In making this change our goal is focused on:

Working closely with each family or individual to clearly define their personal goals and needs. We
will then
devise a plan to provide insight, assistance with financial planning, budgeting and other financial
strategies
if necessary.

Systematically tracking these goals (when possible) to make sure we are making progress with our
efforts to
help.

Holding the family accountable to defined goals. CFO will provide guidance and intervention when
necessary to
make sure the family or individual stays on track.

Provide financial assistance to help the family or individual attain defined goals. This includes,
but not
limited to, providing housing, tuition, job training and any other needs that will help the family.

Expectations of the Board of Directors and CFO:

1. Participate in reviewing each potential candidate and help select each family with an
opinion/vote after fully
reviewing each candidate’s personal story.

2. Participate in strategic planning for each family that CFO chooses to help. The Board
will
determine where help is needed most and how to implement assistance.

3. Consider personal resources that may be able to assist each family (relationships in
banking,
education, etc. that may be able to help).

Expectations of our CFO Families:

1. Work with the Board to clearly define personal goals and how they may be attained.

2. Let the Board know their greatest and most urgent needs. Based on these needs,
develop a plan of
how these specific needs can be met.

3. Communicate with CFO contact to let us know how the plan we jointly created is
progressing.

4.Work hard as an individual or family to achieve the goals they have set.

CFO Vision:

Our vision is to work jointly with families or individuals to define goals and achieve them. While
each family or
individual will have different goals, we want to make sure that CFO and the family or individual
have a specific
plan to reach these goals. Working together with these families and/or individuals CFO will strive
to help them
reach new heights through planning, assistance and hard work.